[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 125234] qt5: exported PDf file misses embedded fonts with vcl=qt5

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=125234

--- Comment #6 from Jan-Marek Glogowski <glogow at fbihome.de> ---
So we talked about "this" on ESC today, and I'll just quote the minutes here:

* Just a reminder regarding kde5 plugin in still (Jan-Marek)
    + the qt5 plugin is currently not using cairo and it’s font handling is not
      really existing.
    + if we keep kde5, should we switch qt5 to cairo too, so that people have
      the same “quality”?
    + we get bug reports for qt5, even if its never automatically selected,
like
        https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=125234
    + Is that considered a problem for anyone or “if it hurts, don’t do it” ?
    + what do you prefer ? (Michael)
       + not sure – user has to select it themselves (Jmux)
          + happy to get bug reports, but reply to bugs is not helpful.
          + if switch to cairo automatically – has same quality / fixes
          + if this comes to still – and people non-automatically select it
       + years ago Kendy made effort to switch VCL from inside the app (Heiko)
          + at beginning of coding process – not clear that’s there.
          + easy to switch from one to the other to cope with issues.
          + talking wrt. Still – but won’t happen here (Jmux)
       + any downside to qt5 + cairo ? (Xisco)
          + not sure if there is any downside (Jmux)
             + plus is that Qt5 would be usable for users.
          + any objections to using Cairo for Qt5 ? (Michael)
             + can we make it more obvious it’s experimental? (Thorsten)
                + not accommodating random users who did odd things they found 
                        on the net.
                   + if there is a plan to improve that over time.
          + fine – how can we make this experimental ? (Jmux)
             + for help/about can write Qt5Experimental
          + had similar thing in the past for gtk3 (Miklos)
             + just ignore it unless its experimental.
                 + i.e. bail out the vcl plug if not experimental mode is on
          officecfg::Office::Common::Misc::ExperimentalMode::get()
          + any objections to making it experimental ?
          => will make it experimental.

So you'll still be able to use it, but have to enable experimental.

If some LxQt person is interested in some auto-loading, this can be revised to
my original suggestion.
FWIW the gtk3_kde5 plugin is "now" also forcefully linked to KIO to prevent bug
124598, even if the library just uses the file picker through an external
helper program (like Firefox does).

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